@epfl-si/react-graphql-simple

A nothing-up-our-sleeves binding for graphql-request in a React application.

• No frills, cache, cache model, auto-reload, bells or whistles — The request starts as soon as your component calls the function that useGraphQLRequest returns, and is never retried unless and until you restart() it.
• (therefore) Works indifferently for GraphQL queries and mutations.
• Optionally provides authentication (only bearer tokens are supported for now); when using this feature, GraphQL requests will be delayed until the first authentication token is received.
• If you want more (i.e. pagination and infinite queries), see @epfl-si/react-graphql-paginated.

Provide a GraphQL context

The <GraphQLProvider> React component takes a GraphQL endpoint URL and an optional authentication mechanism as parameters.

Here is an example where the authentication part is handled using @epfl-si/react-appauth:

import { OIDCContext, useOpenIDConnectContext } from "@epfl-si/react-appauth";
import { GraphQLProvider } from "@epfl-si/react-graphql-simple";

function App() {
      const oidcContextProps = { authServerUrl, ... }

      return <OIDCContext { ...oidcContextProps }>
        <GraphQLProvider endpoint="/graphql" authentication={
          { bearer: () => useOpenIDConnectContext().accessToken }
        }>
          <MoreComponentsForYourApp/>
        </GraphQLProvider>
      </OIDCContext>
}

Perform GraphQL requests from within the context

The <GraphQLProvider> component provides a React context, meaning that within its children elements, any component may call useGraphQLRequest to perform GraphQL requests against the configured endpoint and wielding credentials from the configured authentication (if any).

Except for the part where it waits for authentication to succeed before sending the request, useGraphQLRequest is implemented in terms of plain graphql-request with no further ado.

Here is an example of a functional React component that calls useGraphQLRequest:

import * as React from "react";
import { gql } from 'graphql-request';
import { useGraphQLRequest } from '@epfl-si/react-graphql-simple';

type Item = { id : number, title : string, description : string };

export function MyGraphQLCapableComponent() {
 const { loading, data, error } = useGraphQLRequest<{ items: Item[] }>(gql`
{
  items {
     id
     title
     description
  }
}`);

    if (loading) return <Throbber/>;
    if (error) return <p className="error">{error.toString()}</p>;
    return <>{ items.map((item) => <p className="item">{item.title}</p>) }</>;
}